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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1830.

Hawkers,
&c. to pay
$40, &c. for
license.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That from and after the first day
of August next for each and every license that shall be granted
to any hawker and pedlar who vends any kind of wares, either
of foreign or domestic manufacture, to travel and trade by
virtue of this act, there shall be paid the sum of forty dollars,
exclusive of the customary clerks fee for making out or renew-
ing the same.

DECEMBER, 1820.— CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT to prevent the destruction of Oysters in this State.
Other laws are, 1820, ch. 107; 1821, ch. 107; 1829, ch. 87; 1830, ch.
58; 1831, ch. 249; 1832, ch. 265, 276; 1833, ch. 254; 1834, ch. 311 ; 1835,
ch. 216, 260, 337; 1836, ch. 185 ; 1837, ch. 310.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to the general assembly, that a
great number of large vessels from the northern and middle
states frequent our waters for the purpose of transporting oysters
to those states : And whereas, well grounded apprehensions are
entertained of the utter extinction of oysters in the state, as well
in consequence of the immense quantity thereof exported, as
the destructive instruments used in catching them ; therefore,
SEC. 1. Merged in 1833, ch. 254, sec. 1.
By 1829, ch. 87, sec. 10, drags, or rakes, or tongs, are not to have more
than six teeth.

Penalty for
putting
osyters on
board any
vessel not
owned by
citizens of
this state.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That no person or persons
whatsoever, shall put oysters caught or gathered in the waters,
bays, rivers or creeks of this state, on board of any canoe, flat,
scow, boat or other vessel, not wholly belonging to and owned
by some person or persons who have resided within this state
twelve months previously to such oysters being so put on board
of such canoe, flat, scow, boat or vessel, and every person so
offending, and being thereof convicted before a justice of the
peace of either of the counties adjoining the waters, bays, rivers
or creeks, in which the offence has been committed, shall forth-
with pay the sum of twenty dollars, or in case of failure so to
do, shall be committed by a justice of the peace to the public
gaol of the county, there to remain without bail or mainprize
for sixty days, unless such fine of twenty dollars be sooner dis-
charged, one-half of which fine shall go to the state, and the
other to the use of the informer, in case the evidence without
his or her testimony was sufficient to convict the offender, if

Proviso.

not, the whole of such fine shall go to the state ; Provided
nothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend
to the basin and harbour of the city of Baltimore.
See 1837, ch. 310.

Justice to
issue
warrant on

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every
justice of the peace, upon his own view, or the information of
any person on oath, to issue his warrant to one or more consta-